Mental Therapeutics 



OR 



How to Cure all Diseases 
With the Mind 



Being a Treatise on the Complete Discovery of the 

Law Under Which all Faith and Mind Cures 

Have Been Made in Modern Times 

BY 

W. D. STARRETT 



San Francisco 
1908 



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April 9, 1908 



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TO MY MOTHER 

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VOLUME IS 

AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED 

BY 

THE AUTHOR 



PREFACE 



In giving this work to the public, I have 
no desire to antagonize any other method of 
curing the body of its troubles. I feel now, 
as I have felt ever since I heard of the first 
mind cures, that there must be some law un- 
derlying all such remedies. I believe there 
is only one mystery in the whole universe that 
will never be solved by man. All others will 
be known in time. It is man's mission on 
earth to discover the solutions. If it were not 
so, life w r ould be intolerable. 

If we look back over the many wonderful 
mysteries that have been made plain, we will 
see that it is not unreasonable to make such 
a statement. When we stop and think that 
the force of gravity is drawing all material of 
weight to the very lowest point toward the 
center of the earth, we can but draw the con- 
clusion that the time will come when the earth 
will be absolutely smooth on its surface. 
Now, when that time does arrive, the pro- 
phecy of the Bible will have been fulfilled, 
that every mountain and hill shall be laid low. 

So, when one considers the time it will' take 
to fill in all the valleys and ocean beds by this 



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slow process, he should not have to strain 
his imagination very much to see that man 
will have done the same thing with his diffi- 
culties in the meantime. 

I have no doubt that intemperance and all 
diseases of the mind which are filling our in- 
sane asylums will be overcome by the use of 
the same law. I have already had almost con- 
clusive evidence of it, but in this work I have 
written only what I know from experience to 
be absolutely true. If I am right about this 
law, the fact does not disprove religious works 
but rather strengthens them. To an inventor 
or to one who loves to surmount obstacles, 
life seems all sunshine when the results are 
obtained. Then he hastens to new fields, 
never satisfied. So in this work I feel that 
we are just on the first beautiful plain, after 
a hard climb, and that the rugged mountains 
await to be conquered. 

I desire and hope for plenty of assistance in 
the great work. 



MENTAL THERAPEUTICS 

OR 

How to Cure all Diseases 
With the Mind 



I. 

A human life should be in perfect harmony, 
and would be but for sickness and sin. From 
the time of Adam and Eve a discord has ex- 
isted in human life, caused by sickness and 
sin. Christ came and supplied, for those who 
desired to possess it, the lost chord that has 
ever produced perfect harmony where the 
discord was caused by sin. He did not force 
it on any one, but they who have been wise 
enough to seek his blessed gift to humanity 
have always found harmony, regardless even 
of the discord produced by sickness. 

In this book I am going to show my read- 
ers how to supply the lost chord caused by 
sickness, so that harmony will reign in their 
lives as far as it ever can, until the lost chord 
that Christ supplied for sin is used in connec- 
tion with it, when perfect harmony will fill 
the heart. It is not reasonable to suppose 
that God, who left humanity from the begin- 



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ning of time to the coming of Christ without 
the means of reaching Heaven, and then, 
through that great event gave the remedy, 
did not also provide a way for humanity to 
free itself from the curse of sickness. 

For ages man suffered untold agony from 
operations before anaesthetics were discov- 
ered. One would think, from a human stand- 
point, that He would have made the world 
acquainted with so great a blessing ages ago. 
But such was not God's way. All our knowl- 
edge must be acquired by the slow laborious 
process. 

It can almost be said that no one man has 
ever discovered any great new principle un- 
aided by the discoveries of others. Wireless 
telegraphy was made possible only by the use 
of Hertzian waves. The coherer was primi- 
tively used as a lightning arrester. The laws 
which govern the solar and sidereal systems 
of worlds were discovered gradually. 

It is the mind, the good part of which is 
God himself, that has accomplished these won- 
derful results. If the mind is the source of 
all these miraculous feats, then who will have 
the temerity to say that it can not cure of 
illness the habitation wherein it dwells and 
dominates. Why God, in his wisdom, has left 
us to find out all these things is a mystery. 

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God holds the universe in His hand and 
treats it as we do a little child. As the child 
grows we give it the things necessary for 
each period of its life, while it is constantly 
asking for things which we can give it only 
at a later time. The whole body of a child, as 
well as its mind, must develop simultaneously. 
The world, in its improvements, must develop 
in a like manner. 

At different periods, since the beginning, 
there have been men who have performed 
wonderful cures without the use of medicine, 
but always in a mysterious manner. Either 
they did not know how they accomplished the 
results, or, for their own reasons, did not 
desire to make it known. The former explana- 
tion seems the more probable. In this con- 
nection I may mention Mr. Quimby, of Maine, 
Mrs. M. B. Eddy, of New Hampshire, Mr. 
Alexander Dowie and Bishop Fallows, of Chi- 
cago. There have been many others, but none 
who have made any great headway. Mr. 
Quimby did not claim that he was the dis- 
coverer of the long lost power, given to the 
Apostles by Christ, of healing the body in- 
stantly without the use of medicine. The 
rest have so claimed either directly or in- 
directly, by calling it Christian Science or 
Christian Psychology. There is no doubt that 

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Alexander Dowie made many cures in the 
belief that he was a prophet of God. Since 
the acts of his life have been laid bare, we all 
know that God never made him his prophet. 
The followers of Christian Science have 
made many wonderful cures and claim that 
they have found the Apostles' lost power. 
Bishop Fallows calls his discovery, if the 
papers have reported him correctly, Christian 
Psychology, yet he limits his power of the 
mind to non-functional diseases ; and even in 
these cases a doctor must be consulted. I 
shall not say that they do not have the power 
Christ gave the Apostles, but I do know that 
it takes time to make all these modern cures, 
while Christ's cures were instantaneous and 
even decayed parts were made new instantly. 
In our modern cures pain can be relieved in- 
stantly but there is no record of lost flesh 
being restored instantly. 

II. 

God intended man to be free from bodily 
sickness some time but man himself must 
break the shackles by hard labor. I am going 
to tell my readers exactly how to cure bodily 
sickness without the use of medicine and why 
it will work, so that there shall be no mystery 
about it. 

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First I will say that but for the physicians 
and chemists none of these discoveries could 
have been made. But for them, the corpus- 
cles of the blood and the cellular life of the 
tissues would not have been discovered, nor 
the mircrobes or bacteria, which are causing 
so much devastation to the human race. But 
for them millions who are now enjoying good 
health would have been in their graves. The 
death rate has been lowered all over the world 
by their great work. 

From what I have discovered I can see no 
reason why man should not live as long as 
the bible says he used to. Take a child and 
teach it so that it will never have a cold run 
on it, or any disease, and it will live to old 
age in perfect health. Then why should the 
man die, except that he wears out from work, 
like the Deacon's Wonderful One Horse 
Chaise? But why should he wear out if germ 
life is kept from his body? For it is well- 
known that old age is caused by microbes that 
destroy the tissues of the flesh. 

I am going to narrate my experience with 
this great discovery just as it happened, so 
that the reader will see that he must creep 
before he walks. It is my desire, in writing 
this experience, to get it used by the great 
majority, who are debt-ridden through sick- 

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ness; and, indirectly, to get a recompense for 
myself. 

Before proceeding I desire to say that re- 
ligion has nothing whatever to do with curing 
bodily ills. The cure is accomplished by the 
knowledge and use of a positive law, just as 
unvarying as the law that brings about the 
eclipse of sun or moon or the law that makes 
the magnetic north pole revolve regularly 
about the true pole. A mathematician can tell 
just how long it will be before another eclipse 
or how long it will take for a revolution of the 
magnetic pole about the true one. If you can 
not do so, it is because you do not know the 
law. So, if you can not effect cures, it is not 
because there is not a universal law but be- 
cause you do not know the law. 

I will describe my condition in the year 
1904, my present state of health, and how I 
effected the great change. I have no doubt 
that others have used this law before but in 
an unconscious manner. No one, to my 
knowledge, has ever explained how the cures 
were made and why one is positive of making 
them. 

Since I was a boy of twelve years of age, 
I have been afflicted with catarrh, which, as I 
grew older, gradually affected my throat and 
right lung. I have also had a bad pain in 

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my side just under the ribs. At times this 
pain has been so severe that I could not sleep 
after 5 o'clock in the morning without putting 
my doubled-up fist under the ribs on the right 
side and lying on it. Doctors said the pain 
was caused by my liver and gall. 

About twenty years ago itching piles devel- 
oped and a little later bladder troubles set in. 
My father died very suddenly from heart fail- 
ure and about twenty years ago I commenced 
to feel pains in my heart, particularly if I tried 
to suppress excitement the least degree. I 
have always caught cold every time the tem- 
perature changed to a colder one. It was 
noticing this simple fact that led me to dis- 
cover the law that I now use to prevent and 
cure all pain and sickness. Formerly, when- 
ever I caught a cold, I would be in bed for 
several days and unable to work for a week 
or more. 

I used to say to myself that if I could only 
get some remedy for colds I would not ask 
for any greater favor in this life. When one 
stops to think that colds are the fore-runners 
of almost all other diseases he will realize 
that I was asking for more than I had a right 
to expect. 

At the present time I am feeling better than 
ever before in my life. I can do more work 

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of any kind than when I was twenty-five, and 
feel that life is just beginning. No pains come 
to my body that I can not cure instantly. So 
far as I can tell, my catarrh is the only 
trouble that I yet have. It is so much im- 
proved that I know I shall finally cure it. Ca- 
tarrh being a disease that causes no pain, it 
is hard to keep one's mind on it long enough 
to get results. When one has pain it is easy 
to center the mind. 

In the year 1904 I was riding back and 
forth between Oakland and San Francisco, 
and, as I had many hard colds that year, I 
commenced to think about it and w r onder why 
I had them. 

Though I wondered what caused them I 
could not find any reasonable explanation, 
even by the best authorities, which a layman 
could understand and make use of. 

III. 

One day I went to a doctor in San Fran- 
cisco to have something done for my bladder 
troubles. He told me incidentally that he 
never had a cold. He had at one time made a 
bet that he could go to the top of one of 
California's high mountains with only his 
outer garments on — in the rain, snow and 
sleet, without catching a cold. He won the 

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bet. I asked him how he prevented colds 
and he replied that he just made up his mind 
that he would not have them. Asked if he 
used Christian Science, he said "no." He 
either could not explain or did not care to. 

As he related his experience in going to the 
top of the mountain I remembered that in the 
summer of 1894 I, with two others, had at- 
tempted to cruise out a trail from the western 
portion of Jefferson County, which lies on 
the Pacific Ocean in Washington, to Port 
Townsend, which is in the extreme eastern 
part of the state, on Puget Sound. 

Any one who has ever viewed these Alps 
of the Pacific Coast knows how hazardous was 
the undertaking. We were twenty-one days 
in getting through and many times all but lost 
our lives. We waded rivers of ice-cold water 
many times a day. At night we lay on the 
ground with our wet clothes on. Yet in the 
morning we would get up and start out again 
with no discomfort. We slept on snow and 
glaciers, on high mountain peaks where the 
cold wind whistled through our wet clothes. 
And in all that long trip none of us caught a 
cold or had any sickness. In fact one of the 
party, who had bad bleeding piles when we 
started, found them wonderfully improved by 
the trip. 

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From the doctor's experience and my own 
in the mountains, I began to study, on my 
trips across the Bay, why we did not get 
colds in the mountains. I knew that here in 
the city, at every change of temperature to a 
lower degree people would catch cold or con- 
tract some other form of sickness. 

Another thing which I had noticed and 
which excited my curiosity, was that when- 
ever I had been long without a cold and began 
to think about it, hoping that I would not 
have them any more, I would invariably get 
one. I did not then know that the least 
degree of fear causes a slight change of tem- 
perature of the blood; nor did I know how 
to provide against having that lowering of the 
heat of the body. 

Right here is a great secret! Every evil 
that man is heir to can be provided against if 
he only studies out the way. If one who is 
liable to be tempted to sin will but think of 
it beforehand and make up his mind that he 
will not commit it and will avoid the occasion 
of it, the battle is won. The same holds good 
with the attacks of diseases. You must learn 
to be on your guard, for the enemy never 
sleeps. To cure any sickness is easy if one is 
on guard. 

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I first learned how to prevent colds and 
then how to cure them after they were seated, 
never dreaming then that I could cure any 
other diseases of my body. 

Before the time of my first success I had 
read of the great discoveries of Pasteur, the 
renowned chemist of France. It is now an 
accepted theory that all diseases are caused by 
bacteria or germs that breed and live off the 
body. If allowed to stay there, they cause 
lingering sickness and finally death. 

I remember one case in particular which 
impressed upon my mind the greatness of Pas- 
teur. A friend once came to him, saying that 
his sheep were all dying off and wanted to 
know if he could not do something to prevent 
it. Pasteur made an investigation and found 
the germ that was causing the trouble. He 
next went to the pastures where the sheep 
roamed. From inquiries he found that years 
before sheep had died from some unknown 
cause in that same pasture. He began to dig 
all over and found where the sheep had been 
buried. In the soil at the grass roots he 
found the same kind of germ that was killing 
his friend's sheep. Nothing could be plainer 
than this. 

The theory that all diseases of the body 
come from germs is so well known that it 

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would be time wasted to recite any more 
cases. 

I also knew the theory of the blood — that 
it is composed of two classes of minute ani- 
mals called corpuscles. One of these little 
fellows is red and the other white. These 
latter are sometimes called phagocytes. The 
red ones give the blood its color and their 
office seems to be to accompany the white 
ones in their swift journeys through the 
heart, lungs, arteries and veins, taking up the 
life-giving ammunition supplied by the air in 
the lungs and the carbon from the food, for 
the use of the white ones, and the cellular 
life in the tissues, bones and nerves. 

The white corpuscles are the fierce little 
bulldogs of the system, which do all the fight- 
ing for and protecting of the system, after 
having driven off the enemy which is ever 
present where human beings congregate. The 
repairs of the tissues, bones and nerves is 
accomplished by the cellular life therein. 

Do not forget that these little fighters must 
be kept warm and must distribute the neces- 
sary heat to the cellular life which rebuilds 
the lost or destroyed parts. A certain degree 
of heat must be kept up, so that your work 
will be properly performed and also that you 
may have absolute control of the corpuscles 

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and can send them to any part of your body, 
as readily as you can move a hand or foot at 
will. 

IV. 

In a nut-shell, the whole situation seems to 
be that human beings, especially where con- 
gregated in numbers, are surrounded by en- 
emies in the form of bacteria or germs. These 
are hungry and cold and desire a place to 
propagate their kind. The human body 
affords them such a place if they can only get 
in ; but there are those dreadful little white 
bulldogs on the watch at all the pores of the 
skin in a healthy man, to prevent their getting 
a foot-hold. 

Why God has made it necessary that wher- 
ever true progress is made opposition must 
exist we do not know. But such is the case. 
In every walk of life, where negative force, 
obstacles, opposition do not appear, you will 
find little progress. In the mountains and 
deserts we do not find the earth and air full 
of microbes and consequently diseases are 
rarely found there. But on the other hand 
very few, if any, great men have been devel- 
oped from a life spent away from this nega- 
tive force which we always have present, both 

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in our contact with other human beings and 
in the constant fight in our bodies between 
the corpuscles of the blood and the bacteria 
in the outside element. 

This is so self-evident that it is quite un- 
necessary to have written it for those who 
read the editorials and magazines of the pres- 
ent day; but there is a vast majority who do 
not know these actual facts. 

Heat is life and cold is death ! This state- 
ment may be an absolute fact or it may not, 
but so far as humanity is concerned at the 
present time it is true. 

Every living thing in the universe has its 
enemies and man has often made use of this 
knowledge to exterminate pests. If one de- 
sires to get rid of mice he gets a cat; of rats, 
a weasel; of insects, that ruin fruit trees or 
fruit, another insect which preys upon the 
first for its food. So, to get rid of microbes, 
you make use of their deadly enemy, the cor- 
puscles, to destroy them or drive them from 
the body. 

In the great modern battleship the man in 
the conning tower has only to touch a button 
here, ring a bell there or lift a lever, turn a 
valve, and the ponderous machine obeys his 
slightest wish. When he lifts a lever or turns 
a valve, he does not exert an amount of en- 

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ergy equal to the results obtained. The 
energy has already been stored by the work- 
men, through brain and muscle, and he only 
liberates it. It is this stored energy which 
enabled him to change the movements of the 
ship so easily. The human body is like unto 
the ship. The man in the conning tower of 
the brain has control of all its vital parts. 

No power can be gained without a corre- 
sponding expenditure of power. If I have had 
a pain in my side for years, which was caused 
by the destruction of tissue, and if I instantly 
cure it one might think that I was getting 
something for nothing. Not so. I have simply 
liberated stored energy and it is no miracle 
at all — not even a greater act than that of 
the man guiding the ship. 

God put the mind in control of the body to 
direct all its movements, inside as well as 
outside. If it fails to do so the fault is not 
that it has no power but rather that it has not 
learned how to govern it. The corpuscles of 
the blood are to the mind what the workmen 
are to the man in the tower. 

I have now put the reader in possession of 
the knowledge I had in 1904, if he had not 
previously acquired that information. I hope 
that he realizes that half of any battle is won 
when the knowledge comes that a fight is on. 

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As soon as I realized that I ought not 
have colds, I had sense enough to know that 
there was a way to prevent them, if I only 
had the ability to find it out. I believed that 
God had provided a way but I did not believe 
that He would cure me unless I found that 
way. 

Inventors all say that they have made their 
greatest discoveries after having studied hard 
and failed ; that later, when no longer thinking 
of their failure, the right idea comes to them 
like a stroke of lightning in its swiftness. I 
suppose that this is caused by the mind hav- 
ing to take time to work out the problem be- 
fore the intelligence is conveyed to the picture 
gallery in the brain. 

To illustrate this point: — I remember that 
when a boy, I went nutting with two com- 
panions in a wood which nearly surrounded 
a small farm. We all knew the place as well 
as we knew our own homes. In wandering 
about, instead of coming out on the clearing, 
as we expected, we arrived at exactly the 
opposite side. We had the picture in our 
brain of the side opposite the one which we 
saw. None of us knew the place at all. 
The barn and house were entirely strange to 
us. We sat on a rail fence for about five 
minutes with our mouths wide open in won- 

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derment, when, like a flash, the farm seemed 
to take a turn and all was perfectly familiar. 
I suppose the picture first formed had to be 
erased and a new one printed by the intelli- 
gence within us. 

So it is with you in this matter: — You have 
got to imagine that your views of life are 
wrong and that things will take a whirl before 
you will see the real picture of a man who 
need not be sick, or grow old — in looks, at 
least. 

After studying the subject for a long time 
in 1904 and getting no results, one day the 
thought came to me instantly that the mind 
must have control of the corpuscles of the 
blood and that they would do its will if the 
command were given. I did not have a 
cold at that time and could not expect that 
my view of life would take a whirl till I had 
demonstrated the law. The first time that I 
felt a cold coming on, I just gave a mental 
order to "my workmen" to drive the microbes 
out, and it did not develop. I was not sat- 
isfied, however, till I had tried it again and 
again — with success every time. 

Those first successes were when I felt a 
cold coming on. Later, on one occasion, I 
was working very busily. Having my hat 
off, I caught a good hard cold before I 

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thought to try my remedy. I said to my- 
self, "that will be easy"; but when I tried 
to do it — lo ! it did not work at all. I went 
to studying again and soon found out the 
trouble. 

I reasoned in this way w^ith myself : — If two 
armies are facing each other in battle array, 
each trying to defeat the other by trying to 
get a foot-hold in its lines, a good com- 
mander knows that he must not neglect any 
point that will help keep his opponent from 
securing an advantage over him. If his scouts 
tell him the enemy is advancing to attack at a 
weak spot in his lines he at once sends troops 
to strengthen that point, and in sufficient 
numbers to ward off the foe. By making a 
good show of defense, he will often prevent 
the attack. But suppose the enemy steals up 
and gets entrenched before the commander is 
aware of it, then it will take much more 
energy to drive him out of his advantageous 
position. In case of a cold already under 
way, or any firmly seated disease, it is neces- 
sary to use more energy to drive it out than 
if it had been taken in time. It is compul- 
sory, for success, to make the corpuscles more 
combative, to drive out the entrenched enemy. 
This is only applied common sense, such as 
any business man uses in every day affairs. 

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I remembered, through my experience with 
compressors, in supplying air for rock drilling 
purposes, that when I wanted hot water all 
I had to do was to cut down the supply of 
cooling water and in five minutes I would 
have boiling water without the use of fire. 
The lungs being miniature compressors, I 
saw no reason why I should not warm the 
corpuscles by breathing a little faster or 
taking longer breaths, thereby getting more 
air in my lungs and more heat to make the 
little soldiers fight harder. The long deep 
compressions of the lungs are the better way. 

After testing this theory out on myself for 
three years I have never had one failure. 

When a cold or any disease is just starting 
you always get timely warning, if you 
are on the watch. Then prevention is an 
easy matter. Just as in the case of any bad 
habit or sin, it is easy in the beginning to 
break it off but very hard later on to get rid 
of it. 

The old way people had of warning their 
corpuscles was to take warm drinks. They 
did not know why or desire to know why 
so long as they got the results. I remember 
how my mother w r atched us children and 
when cold weather was coming on would 
mix up a small pailful of composition made 

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from Tomsonian Powders and have us all 
take as much as we could. I have drunk 
pennyroyal tea under the "mistletoe bough" 
held in my mother's hand till I have thought 
I would burst. I remember one time a 
schoolmate was dying from bowel troubles 
and had been given up by the doctor. My 
mother was called in and she went to work 
and applied hot cloths. Inside of one day 
he was on the road to recovery. Heat was 
life in that case sure enough. The heat ap- 
plied to the decaying parts brought the cor- 
puscles there is such force that they routed 
the microbes. 

I have explained how to cure a cold or any 
sickness. This method, if followed faith- 
fully, with just the ordinary business force 
one uses to make a living, will always prove 
successful — so much so that you will be as- 
tonished at the results. Always remember 
that for one to be successful in any business 
he must understand that occupation ; and the 
better his knowledge of it is, the greater will 
be his success. 

VI. 

I will now tell you how you get sickness 
or cold and explain why. The facts are so 
simple that I have little fear of the most 

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learned physicians denying them. I state 
them here because it has been my experience 
all through life that it is the simple things 
of life that are most often overlooked. 

After watching the conditions under which 
I caught cold, as before stated, I found that 
it always happened when the temperature 
was falling. Xow this was a greater discov- 
ery than at first appears : for I immediately 
asked the question "why?" I knew that if a 
person sat in a draft in the house he would 
invariably catch cold. I said. "Why does not 
one catch cold when out in the wind as well 
as when in a room?" The answer was easy 
to find. Corpuscles of the blood are creatures 
of temperature. They are more sensitive to 
heat and cold than one can readily realize. 
When you stop to think that they are the 
medium through which you find out that a 
change is taking place in the temperature 
you will see at once that they are as reliable 
as a thermometer. 

These fighters who are always on guard all 
over your body, doing their work, are con- 
stantly sending messages to the man in the 
pilot house to tell him how things are going. 
All at once some one opens a window and a 
colder current of air strikes your back. The 
corpuscles there feel it at once and warn you 

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that they are cold. If you do not take the 
trouble to warm them they desert their post. 
A little inside the flesh is nice and warm and 
they recede to that point, leaving your pores 
all exposed to the enemy ever lurking near, 
who too is cold, hungry and homeless. The 
microbes at once make a dive for the warmer 
place inside your body and you have a cold 
started or some other disease according to the 
kind of germs which were nearest when your 
little sentinels deserted their post. 

Now, suppose that you had the knowledge 
which I am now giving you. The moment 
that you felt the warning you would have 
directed them to return to their posts, either 
by direct command or by any negative force. 
The act of thinking of them alone makes heat 
and if that were not sufficient you would 
have taken a few deep breaths of air to sup- 
ply them with the amount lost by the change 
of temperature. 

It is a well-established fact that fear in any 
form causes a loss of heat. Those who are 
afraid that they will get a cold and be sick 
are most liable to do so. When out in the 
wind, riding or automobiling, there is no 
more danger of taking cold than when in the 
house, unless you take off some garment you 
have been used to, because the corpuscles- 

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are doing their accustomed work. But take 
off your hat for a while and see how quickly 
a cold will start. If before removing your 
hat you had thought about keeping up the 
supply of heat at that point, which was radi- 
ated by the change, you would not have 
caught a cold. If you anticipate a change 
and provide against having a cold you can sit 
in a draft or take off any garment, get wet 
and be wet in the wind with perfect immun- 
ity. Of course there are exceptions to all 
rules but not to the workings of positive laws. 

If you direct your thoughts to the corpus- 
cles of your blood to force them to do a cer- 
tain thing they will do it, positively, at your 
bidding. If the disease is bad you must take 
the deep breathings and keep up the com- 
mands till you are cured. Perseverance alone 
will win. 

If a person's lungs are about gone it would 
be beyond nature to make a new set. If 
your leg is broken you have got to use na- 
ture, through the fingers directed by the 
mind, to get it back in place again. This, 
after all, is still the mind doing the work 
through the use of the blood. If your foot 
is cut off there is no use in thinking that 
nature will grow another one for you. So 
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no exception in this, although there are ex- 
ceptions among the lower animals. 

So we can not say that nature can not do 
it but rather that she will not for us. Every- 
thing in the universe is ruled by fixed laws 
and God himself will not break them for any 
one. There is always a way of apparently 
overthrowing them, as in this case of curing 
sickness. People will say that is getting 
something for nothing, that it is breaking a 
fixed law. Not so. It is only so to those who 
do not yet see through it. 

VII. 

Science tells us that a grain of copper has 
motion or life within it which exactly dupli- 
cates that of the solar system in so far as 
to have a central body w T ith minor bodies 
held by attraction and circulating around the 
central one. I believe it because the micro- 
scope reveals it, as well as the telescope and 
reflectors reveal that there are worlds and 
systems of worlds in the farthest depths of 
space to which they have reached. 

Many people do not know of the microbic 
theory and consequently will not be able to 
use this method of combating sickness unless 
they are made to understand It thoroughly. 

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Like the theory of life in the atom of copper, 
which can be seen only with artificial eyes, 
so is that of animal life around us. Our eyes 
are mechanically constructed to receive light 
only when the vibrations are about a certain 
number per second. If they are not great 
enough or too high we can. not see. Some 
wild animals can see when the vibrations are 
much lower than for men; so that what is 
darkness for the man is not darkness for the 
animal. 

With the ordinary vibrations of sunlight 
we can see the flies and gnats around us and 
if they attempt to live off our bodies we at 
once take means to get rid of them. But 
why should we not think that there are 
smaller animals than the flies and gnats and 
that these, too, are continually trying to live 
and breed in our bodies? It is common sense 
to believe that there is no end to the minute- 
ness of animal life and besides science has 
proved it years ago. 

Surely God has not left us without a 
weapon to rid ourselves of these enemies 
which we can not see. 

If you have to perform a piece of work 
and your neighbors come in and insist on 
helping you and if they continue to do so 
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do more. If a wife begins to help her hus- 
band earn money the chances are nine out of 
ten that he will allow her more and more to 
take his place as a bread winner. It is nature 
in man which prompts this. For that reason 
doctors will tell you not to make it a habit 
to take medicine. 

So it is with the corpuscles of the blood. 
If you go for relief to doctors who have stud- 
ied how to kill microbes the medicine they 
give you will do the corpuscles' work and 
they will lie dow r n, as it were, and allow it 
to do the work more and more according as 
you develop the habit of its use. You in 
doing so expend your energy in earning 
money to buy the medicine, which energy 
should be applied to the corpuscles of the 
blood directly. If only a fraction of the en- 
ergy expended in buying the medicine is 
applied direct the results will seem miracu- 
lous. 

VIII. 

Human nature is pugnacious. Men will 
fight a visible enemy at the drop of the hat. 
Why they will lie down at the sight of sick- 
ness and allow that to jump on them and beat 
them is a mystery, unless it is because the 
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education have caused men to believe that it 
is a useless fight. 

I had cured colds for a year or more before 
I thought or dreamed that I could do more. 
One day as I was coming home on the ferry 
from San Francisco I said to myself, "I can't 
see why if I can cure a cold so easily, the 
same method should not cure this severe 
headache that is troubling me so this even- 
ing.'' I at once sent my thoughts to my head 
with a command to the corpuscles to drive 
out the microbes which were causing the 
trouble. Immediately the pain went away. 
But as the damages could not be repaired at 
once the microbes came back. I kept driving 
them away and inside of one-half hour the 
headache was completely gone. I suppose it 
may have been several days before the parts 
were entirely well. I have scarcely had a 
headache since and that was over a year ago. 

My bladder troubles I cured almost as 
quickly. After using medicine faithfully, I 
still had the trouble but not so bad. I tried 
my cure and the pain went away almost in- 
stantly. I was not sure that it was not the 
medicine which did the work so I resolved 
to wait before giving my method the full 
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came back and I treated it again with my 
method and have not felt it since. 

The next trouble I had was from carbun- 
cles. A big one came on my neck. I did not 
know what it was till it got the size of a 
walnut. I went to the best surgeon in Oak- 
land, who cut it out bodily. The next day I 
had six come under my arm and from that I 
knew that the cutting had scattered the mi- 
crobes. I used turpentine to drive them from 
under my arm and then they came out on 
my neck by the hundreds. Finally I got tired 
of fighting them in the regular way and just 
for experiment tried my method on them. It 
worked like a charm. They always made 
their first appearance through the skin in a 
very small pimple accompanied by a stinging 
sensation. If I operated against them the 
moment I noticed them, they would go away 
at once — that is, inside of one day. But if 
they got a start, they would not disappear 
for a w r eek or more, although they would not 
grow any more, and I would experience no 
pain from them. 

I want to say here that those who attempt 
hard cures before they have had sufficient 
experience will find that it is not so easy as 
after a few months' work with the method. 
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been bound to the body for all of one's life 
and was suddenly released, the mind would 
have no control over it for some time. The 
mind has been taught unconsciously, not only 
for the individual's life-time but for ages, that 
it could not help itself so far as sickness is 
concerned. But it is truly wonderful how 
quickly it will respond to careful training. 
Another curious circumstance happened when 
I first attempted to cure a carbuncle. I was 
going to San Francisco and had just taken 
my seat on the ferry when the thought first 
came to try and cure them by my method. I 
put my finger on the carbuncle to center my 
thoughts on it the more forcibly. By the 
time I had reached my office the carbuncle 
had almost disappeared and the back of my 
hand was so swollen that I could not close 
it. I knew then at once that, like the sur- 
geon when he cut the first one from my neck, 
I had scattered the microbes and they had 
settled in the back of my hand. Next I cen- 
tered my thoughts to drive them from the 
hand and inside of one day they were gone. 
I learned from that to center my thoughts 
always with the idea of driving them from my 
body completely and it worked for I never 
had such a thing happen to me again. 

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My father died of heart failure and I have 
had it off and on for years. I was attacked 
with it a short time ago but did not try my 
method because I had no idea that I could do 
anything for such a dangerous and stubborn 
disease. I had suffered for about a week 
when the thought came to me to try my 
method at least. I gave it a fair trial but it 
did not seem to do any good. I came to the 
conclusion that this disease was not caused 
by microbes and so I could not expect to do 
anything for it. An attack came on worse 
than ever just at dusk so I said to myself, 
"I'll give my method one more good trial." 
Would you believe it? The pain melted right 
away. I was anxious for the pain to come 
back again so that I might be sure that it 
was I who had driven it away. I was soon 
gratified by its return. I tried the method 
again and it worked instantly every time. 
When I went to bed I lay with my right 
side down and shortly the attack came back. 
I could hear my heart beating very plainly 
but the moment I centered my thoughts on 
it the beatings slowed down to the normal 
number. I was startled to hear it answer my 
efforts in such a manner. I suppose that mi- 
crobes had been on the valves causing the 
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night. In the morning the whole side over 
my heart was sore. It seemed that I had 
driven the microbes all to the surface. But 
in a few hours the soreness was gone. Now 
I anticipate the pain and do not allow it to 
return. I am sure that in a few weeks I shall 
have it cured for good. 

IX. 

I have always been attacked with Cali- 
fornia malaria every season. One who has 
had that trouble will never forget it. It 
comes on with a tired feeling which affects 
the whole body. One's limbs seem to hang 
back like a tired child and the whole system 
seems to be deranged. I had some capsules 
which a druggist got up and which were a 
sure cure for the malaria although it would 
take a week to entirely cure it by that means. 
I was stricken with the malaria this fall and 
went so far as to get the capsules in my 
hand to use when the thought came to try 
my remedy. It was about five o'clock when 
I put the capsules back in the box and started 
to work. I felt relieved in one-half hour and 
by morning I was completely over it. On the 
second day the tired feeling came back 
slightly but I drove it away in a few minutes 
and have not had a malarial attack since. 

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Ever since I was a boy I have been trou- 
bled with my liver and gall. I cured the pain 
of that almost instantly and the damage to 
the parts affected was entirely repaired inside 
of three weeks. The last attack came about 
three o'clock in the morning with a sharp 
pain under the ribs in the soft part. I tried 
my old remedy of lying on my doubled-up 
fist but it would not work. Next I thought 
of my method and decided to give it a trial. 
The pain left instantly, to my great aston- 
ishment. It came back a little on the follow- 
ing morning but has never returned since. 
I have had a doctor tell me that without a 
doubt there is a great change. It takes time 
to repair the destroyed tissues. If flies are 
on an open sore on the hand they cause a 
pain but the moment you drive them off the 
pain ceases. So with the microbes on the 
diseased tissue — there is no miracle in my 
stopping the pain instantly. 

I had an attack of pleurisy which I could 
not prevent from shifting about from one 
place to another or cure at all by my method. 
I knew that my mother used to stop such 
pains with hot cloths. From that I figured 
out that all I needed was more heat. I at 
once tried deep breathings, for that will at 
once heat the blood. In about half an hour 

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when I directed my thoughts to stop the pain, 
it left instantly. It kept returning and I kept 
driving it away. Inside of an hour it had 
left for good. I have not had it since and 
feel sure that it will never bother me again. 

I injured my hands by tearing the skin in 
several places and for an experiment I used 
my thoughts on one, to keep out the mi- 
crobes, and left the other places to their ten- 
der mercies. The one I treated got well at 
once and left no scar but the other one was 
sore for over a month and left a scar which 
I will have for years. The results were so 
conclusive in that test that there is no room 
for doubts. 

About one year ago I had a corn come on 
my small toe. It was very sore and of course 
walking hurt it. One can not be fooled about 
his corns. If they hurt he knows it right 
away and if he gets relief it must be real or 
he knows the difference. I tried to cure it 
more for the experiment's sake than with the 
idea that I could do it. I certainly did not 
use faith cure for I never had any faith in any 
of my cures until my reason first told me 
how it could be accomplished. I just directed 
my thoughts to the corn once and the pain 
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it return and that was more than a year ago. 
In the application of heat for the cure of 
pleurisy pains can be seen the proof of the 
former statement that heat is life. Many 
have lost their lives this last year of 1908 
from the prevalence of that disease. 

X. 

In August, 1907, I was putting down an 
oak floor in my home and in dressing it off 
had to rest my weight on my right foot a 
great deal. Before I knew it the foot was 
paralyzed. I first noticed its condition by the 
sound it made in hitting the floor. I kept 
my mind on it for only about four days when 
the paralysis disappeared after having been 
present for over two weeks. 

Now comes the last cure that I have made 
in my own body up to date and I assure you 
that it will be thought the most astonishing 
of all. For twelve years I have had to wear 
glasses because of astigmatism of the right 
eye. I have had my eyes tested time and 
again with always the same result. I could 
not read a letter of the newspapers* or even 
large print because the letters would appear 
all twisted. I had always intended to try my 
method on them but I had so many other 
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two weeks ago. I^did not believe for a mo- 
ment that I could do anything for them. 
Least of all did I expect to do anything for 
them instantly. 

I looked at the letters before trying in 
order to be sure there was no change. I 
could not read one word. I took off my 
glasses, put them in the case and shut my 
eyes to center my mind the better on the 
optic nerve. I did not have my eyes closed 
over ten seconds when I tried to read the 
columns of the newspaper. At first I could 
see nothing. Then like a flash the letters 
straightened around and I could see that fine 
print as well as ever I could. I was so as- 
tonished that I could not believe my own 
eyes. All I had done was to order the cor- 
puscles of my blood to drive the microbes 
from the nerves of the eyes. As I said before, 
I had no faith, notwithstanding all my other 
cures, because this seemed the most like try- 
ing to work a miracle. I can not see as well 
at night yet but that is no more than one 
would expect. The injury to the nerves must 
be repaired. By daylight I can read the 
newspapers just as well as when I was young, 
Before, when I tried to read without my 
glasses it always caused a criss-cross pain. 
Xow that pain does not come at all. 

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Anyone trying to use this method should 
not think that he can be too bold or reckless 
with nature. Although you may be able to 
see perfectly without glasses it would be wise 
not to try to read very fine print such as 
Webster's Dictionary or the bible for some 
months. Give the nerves time to grow to 
their former condition. Or, in other words, 
give the corpuscles and cellular life time to 
thoroughly repair the damage. I attempted 
to read Webster's Dictionary the second day 
after I had made the change and strained the 
eyes. So I learned by sad experience what to 
do. I found that in the evening I can use the 
glasses and it does not affect my eyes at all 
in reading without them. Only where the 
glasses before did not cause any pain to the 
eyes, now they do. I only tried them to ex- 
periment after I had strained my eyes as 
noted. I am positive that I shall never use 
glasses any more. Every night after going 
to bed I have read till midnight without 
glasses and if that is not a fair test then 
there is none more convincing until one has 
taken off one's own glasses and seen for him- 
self. 

All those who wear glasses have found that 
as they grow older the glasses have to be 
changed every few years because the nerves 

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are being eaten away all the time, which 
makes it necessary to change the prescription. 
The longer you wear glasses the more the 
corpuscles of the blood get used to the mi- 
crobes which are causing the trouble and 
leave them to their work of destruction un- 
molested. 

I will now mention a number of cases 
where I have told others of the method and 
it has relieved them in every instance. 

My wife has a friend who has been sick 
for years — not what one would call seriously 
sick but just like the thousands of women 
to-day who have little ailments and magnify 
them and allow them to dominate their lives 
more and more. I have constantly reminded 
this lady that she need not be sick. She has 
always replied that that idea was all right 
for those who were strong in will power and 
beside but for the w T ill power she had ex- 
erted for years death would have been her 
portion long ago. 

There is such a variety of these self-fooled 
invalids as is almost impossible to conceive 
of. There is always some human event which 
will arouse them but it must fit each indi- 
vidual case. I will here record a few which 
I have myself noticed and no doubt you all 
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I knew a young girl who had been an in- 
valid from childhood. There was nothing 
seriously the matter with her only that her 
parents had coddled her till she came to be- 
lieve that she was very badly off. To be sure 
she had some small ailments but nothing that 
one would despair of easily curing. If one 
had told her that she ought to get out and 
exercise and get God's beautiful sunshine and 
air — rouse herself to the necessity of so doing 
— she would reply that it was impossible for 
her now but that when she got a little 
stronger she would. With that class of in- 
valids the point is never reached where they 
think themselves a little stronger. She really 
believed that she was a bundle of exertive 
force to keep up the way she did. Nor can 
she be blamed, for she really thought as she 
spoke. 

XL 

One bright morning she was lying on the 
lounge in the best living room, shutting out 
any life-giving energy that might possibly get 
in, dreaming dreams of a long life spent as 
a beautiful invalid. A footstep sounded on 
the walk. It came nearer. It entered the 
room. All previous records had been broken. 
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this great sufferer, to enter her presence with- 
out treading softly. It was a strange young 
man ! 

It seems that years ago the mother had 
known this young man when a child and 
had liked him well. The family had moved 
to another state and for years had not heard 
of him. He had come, thinking to surprise 
them. The fair invalid could just turn her 
eyes with surprise at the intruder. She saw 
a fine young man clothed in good taste, with 
a happy smile of expectancy, full of life and 
vigor. Instantly she contrasted her own life 
with this one before her. 

Now, my dear invalid readers, what would 
you have done in such a case? If the world 
had always looked rather black to you be- 
fore, if the trees and flowers with God's 
beautiful sunshine on them showing the sap- 
phires and diamonds which have never been 
duplicated — if all these had never attracted 
you and now all at once seemed to talk to 
your heart — if when the young man departed 
you could not resist getting up to look after 
him and if, when out in the sunshine, the 
world seemed to have a new meaning for you 
and the birds and flowers such an alluring 
call that you could not resist — would you 
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have resisted and braved the wonder of your 
family and friends? I think you would have 
done as she did. The change came in the 
twinkling of an eye. From that moment 
everything in nature was changed for her. 
She did have some troubles but the great 
force that came to her was sufficient to cause 
the corpuscles to attack and destroy the mi- 
crobes causing the illness. She got well en- 
tirely and the power of her thoughts no doubt 
drew the object of her great love to her. 

Although women can not propose and seem 
helpless to win the object of their affection, 
they have a power greater and more irresist- 
ible than man, who can only seek and ask. 
Only those who have a Heaven-born love 
need try to use this rule for it will not work 
for a counterfeit love. If a woman has true 
modest love for a man and he is indifferent 
to her it is because of some failings which 
he can not endure. There is very little chance 
for love to come to either unless there are 
some mutual attractions. If she will look her 
life over and criticise it as minutely as she 
does the lives of others and if she will recog- 
nize her own faults and really correct them, 
it is almost a positive rule that there can be 
no failure. No temporary makeshift change 
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a true little mother for his children will easily 
detect a veneering of faults. 

Once there was a woman who had been 
bed-ridden for years. In all that time she had 
never taken a step. The house caught fire 
when she was in it all alone so that she had 
to burn or get up and run out. Without 
stopping to consider she chose the only way 
to live. After it w r as all over she nearly 
fainted at the thought of the terrible thing 
she had done and, of course, had to be taken 
to bed again on a stretcher. Another woman 
in the great San Francisco fire did the same 
thing and to this day is as well as any 
woman. It is so plain that one has only to 
get up an intelligent force to drive the enemy 
from the body that I can not see why it has 
not been found out long ago. 

In the first case the woman, through neces- 
sity, got up a force sufficient to drive the mi- 
crobes from their stronghold but afterwards 
did not have the courage to keep it up. In 
the second instance the woman had the sense 
to know that if she could run out of the house 
there was no need of going to a bed of sick- 
ness as before. In the first case, after the 
woman had her fright at what she had done, 
the chills from fear at once allowed the re- 
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went back to their former condition. If the 
first woman had been on her guard, having 
this knowledge in her brain, she would have 
resisted their return and would have suc- 
ceeded as the second one did. The tissues 
that had been destroyed would have been 
gradually rebuilt, just as we get tools and 
materials and repair the damages to our 
homes and business-houses after a fire or 
earthquake. It is reasonable that God has 
thus placed these little builders and fighters 
in our bodies to use, to offset the enemy, and 
it should not be looked upon as something 
strange by the most skeptical person in the 
world. 

XII. 

A friend of my wife's, whom I have pre- 
viously mentioned, caught a bad cold, so that 
instead of using one handkerchief it was 
necessary to keep a dozen on hand. We hap- 
pened to meet when as usual health was the 
first theme of discussion. She not only told 
me of her terrible cold but demonstrated it 
by the flourish of handkerchiefs. So I said 
to her, "Do you really want to get rid of that 
cold?" Of course she replied that she did 
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to her, that her mind was not strong enough 
to use that method. 

I said to her, "Will you do as I tell you at 
once, now, and with all seriousness?" She 
assented to my proposition unconditionally. 
I told her to stand up, close her eyes, drive 
the corpuscles by mental direct command to 
the point of the cold and at the time take 
deep breaths of air. She did so for about 
two minutes, when she felt better. I told 
her to keep it up and by morning the cold 
would be decidedly on the wane. Sure 
enough, in the morning the handkerchief was 
not needed any more and there was scarcely 
any sign of a cold. She tells me that since 
then she has cured her headaches and feel- 
ings of lassitude in the same manner. 

The standing up and closing the eyes has 
nothing to do with the cure but simply en- 
abled me to get her undivided attention. Now 
that she has actually had a demonstration of 
her own power she thinks that she can help 
herself without doubt. One has only to think 
he can do a thing and, if he has persistency 
coupled with good reasoning powers, he can 
accomplish almost anything. 

A man who came to my house on business 
complained of his headaches and I, as usual, 
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have them. He wanted to know how such a 
miracle could be performed and I told him. 

He could never drink coffee without get-* 
ting one of those terrible headaches. I told 
him how not to have them and in the morn- 
ing to drink his coffee, at the same time keep- 
ing his mind in a combative state against the 
microbes that were causing the trouble. He 
did so and had no trouble from headaches. 

We lunched together that day and he, still 
afraid of coffee, ordered tea but by mistake 
the waiter brought coffee. I laughed at him 
and told him to drink it with his mind against 
trouble and he would not have any. He did 
so and felt no effects at all of a troublesome 
nature. He went to San Luis Obispo. After 
more than a month I had a letter from him 
saying that he was the happiest man in the 
world as he had not been troubled with a 
headache since I gave him my method of cur- 
ing it. 

A man was troubled with constipation very 
badly. When he told me of it I instructed 
him how to cure it, as it was caused by mi- 
crobes in the intestines. All one has to do 
is to direct his corpuscles to that point, just 
as in any trouble, and in a few hours nature 
will act. I have used it again and again on 
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suits if one uses his mind the right way and 
has had a little practice in directing this work. 

Another friend of my wife's was afflicted 
with rheumatism. I met her in a dentist's 
parlors. She complained to me of her trou- 
bles and how she could not work on account 
of them. I told her that I could tell her how 
to cure them but she doubted me. I then said 
to her that as we had a half hour to wait, if 
she would take the matter seriously I would 
show her how to cure herself of this trouble 
and any that might ever come, if she would 
have the perseverance to keep at it. She 
agreed and I explained my discovery. 

I did not see her again for three weeks. 
When Ave met, the first thing she said was, 
"Do you know, my rheumatism was gone 
before I reached home that day. I went to 
work and my daughter thought I was crazy 
because I was working. I told her how it all 
came about and she could not believe it. 
When my husband came home we were 
anxious to tell him the good news but he 
rather dampened our ardor by saying, 'You 

are d fools and your doctor is a bigger 

one/ (He is a captain and a little out- 
spoken.) My daughter told him that we did 
not care what the doctor was as long as my 
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was sure." They told the husband to come 
and see me himself and be convinced. He 
came, he heard, and was conquered and now 
he swears by the method. 

I think it quite unnecessary to tell of any 
more cases for if anyone reading these al- 
ready recited will not take heed and learn, 
then I fear he would not profit if I gave him 
many more chapters to read. 

Of course mind healers will say that the 
cures are accomplished by suggestion. I 
have experimented with pains caused by mi- 
crobes and with what might be called arti- 
ficial pains — that is, pains caused by an in- 
stant bruise, burn, or pin-prick. In case of 
the pains caused by microbes I have never 
had one failure but in that of the artificial 
ones I have never had one success. Of course 
if one sets his mind on something else power- 
ful enough to keep it centered there he will 
not realize pain; but the moment he allows 
his thoughts to return to the trouble he will 
find the pain still there. Nor is this beyond 
common-sense, for the life in the cell of the 
tissue or corpuscle is crying to its protector 
for relief and like a child will keep up the 
crying till it gets relief whether the protector 
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Here I will say, for the benefit of the 
M. D.'s, who will feel on reading this that 
their occupation is gone if all written here 
is true, "Not so !" In the first place, if one 
understands anatomy so that he can locate 
the trouble inside the body he can do a great 
deal more than one who is in ignorance of 
the cause of a pain and its location. For in- 
stance, if one had a bad headache it may be 
caused from a destruction of the tissues in 
some remote part of the body. Consequently, 
a doctor w r ho has intimate knowledge of the 
body will be much more successful in using 
this method than one who has not that neces- 
sary information. When this system begins 
to be used generally the doctors will learn it. 

A patient coming into the office of one who 
understands the causes of all diseases will, 
by his appearance, show the physician just 
where the trouble is and all the latter will 
have to do will be to use the requisite nega- 
tive force at that point to drive the microbes 
away, when the pain will cease and the pa- 
tient will at once know that he is being 
helped. It is said that there are two fools 
born every minute and that only one dies in 
that time, so that the supply will never be 
exhausted. Plenty of people will never read 
and, if they do, will not take heed. Some will 

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try for a time and then drop it and go to the 
doctor, who will cure them by doing just 
what God intended them to do for themselves. 

I have found that I can write what I know 
to some and they will take heed, while others 
will not consider the written lesson at all 
but when I tell them face to face will listen 
and believe. So again the doctors have the 
advantage of talking face to face, full of the 
actual knowledge the patient is seeking. This 
profession will be more lucrative because it 
is certainly better from a business point of 
view to teach people how to live than to show 
them the way to the river Styx. 

People will live longer in general, so there 
will always be enough to keep the physicians 
busy. Besides the population will increase 
out of proportion to what it does now. 

We need revival meetings or missions in 
this, as in religious teaching. Human beings 
will always need some one to arouse them 
out of the groove into which they get. They 
will not in general learn to do anything for 
themselves but will always need someone to 
assist them. 

XIII. 

I have found that I can assist another per- 
son, present or absent, by the use of the 

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same method. This at first seems like an 
impossibility but is quite easy to explain. 
There need be no mystery about it any more 
than about the things I have already written. 
I will give some experiences of my own to 
confirm this statement. No doubt many like 
experiences will be recalled by the reader. 

Many people have abundance of electricity 
in their bodies and all have more or less. I 
have learned that energy can be conveyed to 
another person's corpuscles and will force 
them to act as if they were one's own. If 
my child is sick I simply send my command 
to the corpuscles in the body of the child and 
they will obey as if they were my own. 

I explain it in this way. Thinking creates 
waves of electricity which pass through the 
air like wireless messages on the Hertzian 
waves. The sending of this force into space 
makes the corpuscles lively to perform the 
work you intend. Inasmuch as one can send 
his thoughts to a certain person it does not 
seem out of reason that this should be so. I 
think it will be found that thoughts and elec- 
tricity are one and the same thing. That the 
electric force so transmitted strikes the body 
which acts as a resisting coil, causing heat, 
thereby warming the corpuscles and cellular 
life. In wireless telegraphy the more power is 

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generated the farther the messages can be 
sent. So with the human thoughts, the more 
intense one can think the more easily one 
can send his thoughts to affect another at a 
distance, or more thinking of less intensity 
will accomplish the same work. This ex- 
planation should hold good till some better 
one is given. There is no doubt that one per- 
son can affect another even when distant from 
him if he thinks hard enough or constantly 
enough. 

To prove this statement I will mention sev- 
eral facts of my own knowledge which I 
know to be absolutely true. 

A boy some twelve years old, living in a 
farming district of Illinois, had this experi- 
ence. He was about as countrified a little 
fellow as one could imagine and very poor. 
He was rather a dreamy boy, not above the 
average in brightness at school. For one 
born to his surroundings, his mind was at 
work in most peculiar channels. His love for 
the opposite sex was truly wonderful. The 
sight of a girl at that time, no matter how 
homely she might be, affected him like beau- 
tiful music or the sight and fragrance of 
flowers — a breath of Heaven, as it were, to 
assist him over temptations which otherwise 
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spect for womankind followed him all through 
life. One winter day a neighboring farmer 
took the boy with him in his sleigh to Wau- 
kegan, a city about ten miles away, on the 
shores of Lake Michigan. Our twelve-year- 
old had never been out of his native village 
before, so that this was a great adventure 
for him. While in Waukegan the neighbor 
called on some acquaintances and our rustic 
knight went in with him but he came out a 
different boy for in that brief space of time 
the world had changed for him, never again 
to be the same. A little girl was there with 
laughing eyes and round full face, who 
wrought the change. The boy contracted a 
bad case of youthful love — as pure as a 
mother's love— only not so lasting. When 
he went back to his home and school all 
things were different to him. He had seen 
the little girl for only about five minutes but 
that was sufficient to leave the memory of 
her always in his thoughts. Yet so bashful 
was he that a team of horses could not have 
drawn one word about her from his mouth. 

Night and day he thought of her. As time 
passed he desired more and more to see her 
just once that he might know whether he 
really cared for her still. Two years passed 
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boyish love for her still the same, although 
he was rapidly changing from a boy to a man 
even at that age. He went to work on a farm 
and always the little girl's picture was before 
him. He was thinking of her night and day. 
One evening when he had come in from the 
field and sat down to his dinner a gentle rap 
came on the door. The woman of the house, 
farmer like, opened the door just a little but 
enough for the boy to catch a glimpse of the 
face outside. And behold ! It was the little 
girl of his dreams. He nearly fainted from 
the surprise of finding his wishes fulfilled. 
He heard her say that she was looking for a 
certain farm house and ask the woman to 
direct her to it. Anyone can see that the 
chances for that little girl calling at that par- 
ticular house was about as one to millions. 

The boy did not understand at that time or 
know that it was himself that had caused her 
to come that he might catch once more a 
glimpse of her face. It was the "magnetic 
pull'"' which had solved the problem for him. 
In that one glance he found that he had out- 
grown his liking for her and after that her 
face did not abide with him. 

A man whom I once knew told me this 
actual occurrence. He had a brother living 
in Michigan whom he thought a great deal 

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of. He himself had left that state for the Ter- 
ritory of Washington and was in the extreme 
western part, out in the wilderness, camping 
under a big fir tree all alone. Late one night 
he was awakened with a start by hearing his 
name called and a voice like his brother's say- 
ing, "Good-bye/' About two months later he 
found that his brother had died in Michigan 
that very night. 

Now I do not think for a minute that the 
voice of his brother came all that distance. It 
was transmitted by wireless telephony with- 
out a doubt. 

I once had some money troubles with a 
man in San Francisco. On my way home 
that day I thought of nothing but the way he 
had treated me. I went to bed thinking of it 
and could not sleep for thinking of what I 
should say to him on the next day. In the 
morning when I went to his office he said 
that he had been thinking of me all night long 
so that he could not sleep. Now he had no 
reasons for keeping me in his mind all night 
as I had for thinking of him, for he owed me 
money which I needed badly. 

XIV. 

One night my little boy, who is about ten 
years old, was taken with the ear-ache after 

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he had gone to sleep. His moaning awakened 
me and for an experiment I tried to stop his 
pain just as if it were my own. In fifteen 
minutes I had quieted him and he has not 
had it since. 

I knew of a case where a man met a young 
girl on a railroad platform where they saw 
each other only for a space of some ten min- 
utes. That, however, was enough to allow 
both to fall desperately in love. They never 
spoke to each other and parted thinking never 
to meet again. Inside of two years they were 
man and wife! They met again thousands 
of miles from their first meeting place. They 
had thought of each other constantly after 
their first meeting and were drawn together. 

In the year 1897 I traveled from Juneau to 
Skagway, Alaska. I was sitting in the cabin 
listening to the small talk around me, when 
I noticed a man standing by the smoke-stack 
warming his hands. All at once some one 
exclaimed, "Hit it!" The man drew back and 
gave the smoke-stack a tremendous blow with 
his fist. Some one else said, "Slap him!" and 
he gave the man next to him a side blow that 
nearly floored him. A few minutes later they 
were all going down the companionway one 
by one to dinner. The last man cried out, 
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down the stairs by a blow from the strange 
man. In answer to inquiries on my part they 
told me that this man was afflicted with a 
trouble which placed his executive department 
under the control of anyone giving a sudden 
order to him. If he were suddenly ordered to 
jump overboard he would do it. He was per- 
fectly sound in every other respect. Since 
then I have found that there are many so 
afflicted. 

This story will serve to illustrate the law 
herein laid down — that the corpuscles and 
cellular life will obey the orders of another 
person instantly if the conditions are right. 
In these cases the mind was so slow that the 
electric force acted or executed the order of 
another through the cellular life, before his 
mind could countermand it. If the orders 
were given slowly they were not executed. 

It is not necessary to enumerate any more 
cases to prove that thoughts can be conveyed 
as I have described and impressions made on 
another's body, no matter how distant. 

It must be remembered that I had never 
tried to use my mind before as I did in that 
case of my little boy so that it is surprising 
that I did so much at the first attempt. Some 
may say that it was through sympathy that 
I was enabled to do it. But I have used the 

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same method on strangers when they did 
know it and have had the same results. 

There is no excuse for growing old. Old 
age is a form of sickness caused by microbes, 
as has been positively demonstrated. These 
microbes attack the tissues of the flesh espe- 
cially where it is exposed to the cold. I have 
seen plenty of old people whose faces, hands 
and wrists were old and wrinkled, while their 
bodies were almost as perfect as when they 
were young. Where the face is continually 
exposed to the changes of temperature the 
microbes get in, because the corpuscles desert 
their post and gradually allow the foes to re- 
main. These eat away the flesh, making wrin- 
kles. If one keeps one's mind on that fact 
till a constant resistance is generated wrinkles 
will never come and those already acquired 
can be driven out. 

There are many people who grow old but 
not aged — whose bodies are sound, without 
wrinkles, and who are vigorous in mind and 
body. Now if there is one person in ten thou- 
sand who is in the condition mentioned there 
is no reason why the other nine thousand nine 
hundred and ninety-nine should not be 
brought up to the same condition in time. 
One need not strain a common-sense line of 
reasoning to arrive at the above conclusion. 

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Some may say that it is an impossibility. 
But does one believe that God made human 
beings to suffer from sickness as they do at 
the present time? While in all civilized coun- 
tries the death rate has been lowered, the 
sick list has so increased that without a doubt 
there is more misery than ever in the world. 
If a thing can not be accomplished in one way 
it can in another. If the milder forms of sick- 
ness are on the increase new methods of cure 
should be tried until a remedy is found. It is 
natural to believe that the human race can be 
brought to a higher plane of perfection, both 
in mind and body. The American people have 
always believed that what one can do another 
can and I am positive that in the great 
mental change coming to the human race they 
will take the lead. 

Why should man's hair fall out any more 
than woman's? Because women do not keep 
their heads covered so constantly as men. 
The flesh of the scalp is very thin and the 
blood does not circulate very rapidly. Con- 
sequently the corpuscles are scattered. The 
cold striking them so often, they do not per- 
form their work and the microbes which kill 
the roots of the hair get in and do the mis- 
chief. The reason that in most cases the top 
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point is most distant from the heart and the 
circulation is poorer there than anywhere else 
in the body. At first thought it would seem 
that if the man keeps his head warmer than 
the woman the result would be the reverse of 
what it is. As I have said before, the bad 
circulation in the scalp and the man's con- 
stantly taking off his hat cause so many 
changes of temperature that the microbes get 
in and stay in, while with women the cor- 
puscles of the blood have a more constant 
temperature and do not desert their work. 

It is the same with lung troubles. The con- 
stant changes of temperature in the lungs 
leave them exposed. Hence the bacteria are 
always there. It is truly wonderful that this 
dread disease is not more prevalent than it is. 
Stop and think of what happens when one 
breathes through the mouth. Hordes of 
microbes are taken in at each breath and some 
of course find lodgment in the lungs. 

When the head itches it is because the 
microbes are at work eating away the roots 
of the hair. And it is the same when the 
throat or lungs itch. It seems to me folly 
not to mind these little straws which show 
you whence the wind is blowing trouble to 
you. The old advice, so often given, not to 
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rational thing to do is to mind them and use 
your brain to stop them before it is too late. 
No person need die of tuberculosis if his 
lungs are examined often. 

With this method, all that one has to do is 
to take notice of the itching of the lungs and 
keep one's thoughts in a combative state and 
directed to the point of trouble. When my 
head itches I direct my thoughts to the place 
and immediately the itching ceases. 

When a fly or mosquito alights on any 
part of the body, the scratching of the tiny 
feet or the bites of the insect cause an itching 
and one never fails to take notice of them 
and to devise means of driving them away. 
If a fly is allowed to eat and lay eggs in a 
contusion the resulting foul sore is inevitable. 
So it is with the microbes in the flesh, from 
the tiniest first pain they cause. 

At the Rockefeller Institute in the East, a 
professor has discovered a way to cure spinal 
meningitis. He takes some of the blood from 
the patient's spine and injects it into the spine 
of a horse, allowing it to remain for some 
time. He then draws out the same quantity 
from the horse's spine and injects it into the 
spine of the patient, after it has remained in 
the horse long enough for the corpuscles to 

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breed with those of the horse, which gives a 
stronger corpuscle. 

The theory is this : It is necessary to get 
corpuscles strong enough to drive out the 
microbes which have entrenched themselves 
in the patient's body. To do that, the dis- 
coverer of this method thought of making the 
corpuscles which had become weakened or so 
accustomed to the enemy that they would not 
fight, stronger by injecting some of them into 
the spine of a horse. The results were satis- 
factory, for nearly every case was saved by 
the use of this method. 

That was good common-sense but the 
trouble with such remedies is that the after- 
effect is to be dreaded. While the stronger 
corpuscles may kill the enemy and completely 
rout him they are liable to do more. If the 
white corpuscles become too strong they will 
destroy the red ones, which accompany them 
to do the carrying of supplies for their own 
use and that of the cellular life. The blood 
in that case will become watery and the 
patient sickly. As stated in a previous chap- 
ter opposition must exist in the body against 
the attacks of outside enemies but it must 
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If the corpuscles become too strong within 
the body they grow hungry and eat up their 
own helpmates. I suppose that was why the 
doctors used to bleed people in the olden 
times, and put on leeches to suck the blood. 
It seems to me just like everything else in 
life. There must always be healthy opposi- 
tion but neither side must get too much ad- 
vantage. It seems to me that God has pro- 
vided a reserve force within us to use when- 
ever we feel that the necessary enemy, the mi- 
crobe, is getting too much advantage. Most 
people eat too much now-a-days and this 
makes their blood too rich and their corpus- 
cles too strong. The bible speaks often about 
fasting and if this were heeded more the 
human race would reap rich physical rewards, 
aside from the spiritual ones. 

In the cases of spinal meningitis, if the pa- 
tients had been taught how to prevent dis- 
eases, it would have been as easy to cure 
themselves at the start as to cure a cold. 

XVI. 

The whole secret is in being able to detect 
the approach of disease. Disease lurks in 
every cold and a cold always comes when the 
temperature is falling. My method works 

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every time. I simply notice when the tem- 
perature is changing and keep my mind with 
a resisting force, in the same manner that I 
would if I were assailed with some sinful 
temptation. I go about feeling like a being of 
another world, for when everybody else is 
fighting colds and all kinds of sickness, I am 
positively immune. It seems to me that such 
a condition is worth months of study and that 
it must be known to everyone. 

My children can do the same as I. Of 
course children forget and let a cold get 
started, after which it is harder to get rid of. 
But if the parents know how to use this pre- 
ventive they will notice when the child is 
taking cold and warn it to look out and assist 
it to overcome by using the same methods as 
on one's self. More will be said on this sub- 
ject later on. For several years my children 
have not had a cold run on them or had any 
of the prevailing children's diseases. 

Every household should have a thermometer 
and barometer handy, so that the moment the 
temperature begins to fall the children can 
be told of it and to be careful. After a while 
one will acquire a resisting force that will 
make him practically immune from disease. 
I used to take a cold at every slight change 
but now I rarely feel one starting. 

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Do not scoff at this but spend that wasted 
energy in trying it and you will get results 
that will seem like miracles. 

All parents should be able to protect their 
helpless babes in a like manner. If I can do 
it you can also. And it is good common sense 
to think that God has provided a way to do it. 
Now-a-days people, to keep the little ones 
quiet, dope them with all kinds of harm- 
ful medicine that affects them for all 
time. With this simple remedy of mine all 
one has to do is to give the command and 
the little pains vanish. Only three nights ago 
my little boy was attacked with a bad cough- 
ing spell — microbes in the throat — and T told 
him to come to my room. He came and sat 
down on the side of my bed and in one minute 
I stopped the coughing so that he went to bed 
again and slept as if nothing had ever both- 
ered him. If I had not helped him he would 
have had a bad cold in the morning. 

I repeat, do not think that you have got to 
give your time to this. At first a few min- 
utes at a time will be needed to cure your 
ills. But after a while it becomes second na- 
ture so that you will unconsciously act with- 
out any inconvenience at all. Just stop and 
think that you can not make a single move- 
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seat of power in the brain, yet this does not 
cause you any bother. Notice some time 
when you are combing your hair how, if you 
change the comb from one hand to the other, 
unless you think about it your empty hand 
will stay up in the air until you give it the 
command to come down. You can give stand- 
ing orders for movements of your body as in 
the case of walking, which does not require 
an order for each step. So it is in this mat- 
ter, after one has acquired the control of the 
corpuscles such as God intended one should 
have, he can give a standing order for his cor- 
puscles to be on guard and they will obey, 
except in extreme changes of temperature, 
when especial attention must be given at the 
time to provide extra heat. In looking after 
workmen in any industry standing orders can 
be given for all ordinary circumstances but 
when an extraordinary condition arises then 
they have to be looked after by the man in 
charge — and this regardless of the faithful- 
ness of the workmen. Remember that the 
corpuscles are really you and will act just as 
you will under like conditions. 

Now take an hour by yourself and think 
over every word of this book. I have not 
written one word more than I could help 
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knowledge that I have acquired by long and 
actual experience. They will seem crazy 
ideas until you get the first result of your own 
thinking. Then the wonder of it will over- 
whelm you. When that dies away you will 
consider it perfectly natural to do what a 
short time ago you thought an impossibility. 
We think it wonderful that a bird can fly 
and yet it is simple compared with our walk- 
ing. Did you ever stop to figure out how 
you perform that every-day business? I dare 
say not one in ten thousand ever thought it a 
wonderful feat; yet flying is easy compared 
with it. Take up a dead man soon after life 
is extinct and see how hard it is to hold him 
upright ; or, better still, try a fainting person. 
No wonder it is hard for every joint is a ball 
joint and when the mind is gone it is an im- 
possibility to keep the body upright. 

XVII. 

In flying, when the wings are in motion the 
propelling force comes from two sources. 
The back end of the wing describes a greater 
circle than the front, giving a sculling move- 
ment which drives the weight ahead. The 
wings are slightly concave, causing a slight 
compression of the air around the body. The 
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inch thick in front, tapering to a knife edge 
in its length. The body has it greatest diam- 
eter at about two-thirds of its length. The 
compression of the air from the wings acts 
on this taper, causing the body to be squeezed 
forward. The wings being fine tapered wedges 
squeeze ahead from the pressure of the air 
upon their surfaces. To prove this : — When 
the wind is making pressure or, in other 
words, power, the gull can hold its wings 
still and the compression of the air caused by 
the wind trying to reach a partial vacuum 
somewhere squeezes the bird ahead against its 
own pressure. If the wedge power of the 
wings and body is figured from a twenty- 
five-mile wind the results will show that it 
will overcome the head resistance by a big 
margin. 

This digression is only to show that it is no 
miracle for a bird to fly. But I w T ill defy any 
one to figure out how a man walks and bal- 
ances himself. I know that it is done through 
the mind, acting through a bit of flesh in the 
head, called a level, with a corpuscle or sev- 
eral of them to warn the pilot in the brain 
when the body is getting out of balance and 
to shift weights. I w T ill leave it for some one 
else to go into the how of it more minutely, as 
I have said enough to illustrate my point, 

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which is that the mind through the corpuscles 
and cellular life has absolute control of the 
body and that they will obey every order if 
the mind knows how to give it. 

The mind is composed of two forces, posi- 
tive and negative. This is so simple that one 
does not have to read scientific works on the 
subject to realize its truth for he has the 
knowledge at hand. Did you ever attempt to 
do a wrong act, which of course was ordered 
by one part of the mind, that the other part 
did not warn you not to do it, even going so 
far as to give its reasons? On the other hand 
was there ever a good act performed that one 
part of the mind did not try to persuade the 
good part by all kinds of arguments that it 
was unnecessary and foolish? For instance: — 
You are going along the street and meet a 
poor cripple. The good part of your mind 
tells you to give him fifty cents and the bad 
part will at once set up the argument that 
that is foolish. "People will see you and 
think you are doing it for show." "Perhaps 
he has plenty of money hidden somewhere." 
"He will spend it for drink." If Bad Part can 
not convince Good Part to do nothing he will 
try to compromise by saying, "Fifty cents is 
too much ; you can't afford that much ; cut it 
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Mr. Good Part sees the force of the argument 
and gives in to avoid further trouble. 

When Mr. Bad Part proposes that you go 
to some bad place, Mr. Good Part at once 
makes arguments against it. "What will your 
mother think of it?" "What will that dear 
little girl whom you love so much think?" 
"You know it is wrong, so don't do it." At 
the same time Mr. Bad Part is putting up all 
the arguments he can from his point of view. 

So it is, not only in connection with good 
and bad acts, but with every act of business 
or pleasure. These two forces are opposing 
each other. Sometimes I think that there is 
a third part of the mind, which listens to 
the arguments pro and con and makes the 
decision and issues the orders to the little 
animals in the body to execute them. As far 
as this book is concerned it does not matter. 
I only want to impress upon the reader that 
the mind singly or collectively gives its orders 
and that the corpuscles execute them without 
delay if they are given in the right way. 

Neither is it necessary to explain the life 
in the corpuscle, any more than it is to find 
out the wrrys and wherefores of the life in the 
bacteria which are constantly attacking the 
body. There is no doubt that it is all for the 
best for us. 

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XVIII. 



In conclusion I am going to point out in a 
concise way some of the dangers to avoid, 
which might keep one from getting the re- 
sults he should, and to repeat in as short a 
manner as possible how to use this method 
without re-reading the whole book; also to 
summarize it all so that one will have no 
trouble in grasping it at once. I intend it to 
be self-teaching, so that one need not pay 
out hundreds of dollars to be able to use it 
and get the results. 

Anger, hate, jealousy, and all those bad 
thoughts which have ever made the world and 
homes such gloomy places come from inten- 
sity of thought. The tremendous changes go- 
ing on all the time amongst the nations of 
the world, as well as in individual life, show 
the enormous power stored in intense think- 
ing, either for good or for evil. The results of 
intense thinking, with love and good-will as 
the fountain head, have ever neutralized the 
bad effects caused by the excessive explosions 
of anger and the evil passions. 

Anger, hate, and jealousy are caused by an 
intense discharge of negative force, a com- 
mand to the corpuscles which causes them to 
fly in all directions in a crazy manner. These 

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passions harm the individual giving away to 
them more than any one else. On the other 
hand the positive explosions, such as love and 
good will, always do the one giving them 
more good than any one else, unless of course 
they are too excessive. 

The whole key-note seems to be moderation 
in all things, even in doing good. If too much 
good were done, the recipients of it would lie 
down and wait for it and the world would de- 
teriorate. So this method must be used in an 
intelligent manner. One's mind should be 
clear and free from excessive thoughts on any 
other subject. Even here one should not 
think excessively unless the disease requires 
it. A slight cold will be driven away with 
very little exertion, while a bad disease will 
call for more power expended, either by more 
intense thinking or by less intense thinking 
but more of it. A sudden explosion of orders 
to the corpuscles not given intelligently will 
cause them to scatter the microbes all over the 
body. I have had a cold attack my lungs and 
by not thinking have driven it all to my head 
or bowels in five minutes. One should al- 
ways have it in his mind to drive the mi- 
crobes out of the body and if one does not 
forget they will always go out. When I 
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the next morning the flesh directly over it 
was so sore that I could scarcely touch it, 
showing that the germs had left at that point 
but had done some damage there before going. 
The first time I tried to assist my boy to get 
rid of a cold it left him and in ten minutes I 
had it. Then I drove it out of my body. 



SUMMARY OF INSTRUCTIONS. 

When you feel the slightest pain in any 
part of the body, take notice of it at once. 
If you feel a desire to lie down from any 
reason outside of that caused from work, it is 
an indication that something is wrong. Even 
with ordinary work, a man in healthy condi- 
tion should not get tired while at it. So if 
you get that tired feeling when at work you 
may know with certainty that you are not in 
perfect health and should begin to overcome 
the trouble. If you will stop and think you 
will discover the locality. 

To repeat : — The slightest pain or the slight- 
est tired feeling is an indication of danger. 
The moment the signal is given by either in- 
dication turn your mind directly to the spot 
if you know where it is (and of course you 
do if it is a pain). If it is that weary, stuffed- 

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up feeling that comes when one is about to 
take a cold, then make it a general com- 
mand for your whole body. If you do not feel 
better after ten minutes of thinking and 
watching for results then take ten minutes 
of deep breathings with your mind concen- 
trated upon your commands to the corpuscles. 
For instance if the trouble is in the heart, try 
to get a picture of the heart in your mind 
and direct the corpuscles to that point. As I 
have said before the deep breathings make 
extra heat, which warms your little soldiers 
and makes them active. 

If you desire to help another person use 
the same method but practice getting a pic- 
ture of the diseased organs directly before 
you, so that they seem near. I do not say 
that no results will come if you do not suc- 
ceed in this but greater results will be 
achieved if you do. The reason for this is 
that the concentration of the mind necessary 
to get the picture causes a greater flow of 
energy or power in the form of electricity to 
the other's body.. It is not good to exert 
yourself too much on every occasion. Always 
use sufficient energy to overcome the trouble 
and no more. In any occupation never use 
more energy than is enough to perform the 



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work. In this method of curing, likewise, 
conserve your energy. 

Do not make more heat than is required to 
enable the corpuscles to drive out the attack- 
ing germs. They will not work effectively if 
they are cold, and that means if they are 
colder than they have been used to a short 
time before. You must warm them if there is 
a change of temperature for the colder. It 
will surprise you how little thinking or extra 
breathing will accomplish the desired results. 

The corpuscles soon get used to any change 
of temperature, either at the Tropics or the 
frozen North and when they are acclimated, 
as it were, then any changes will affect them 
just the same, if the disease germs are there. 
It is alw T ays very important that you raise the 
temperature of your blood by thinking in- 
tensely enough to suit the occasion and no 
more. If you have a seated disease it is 
better to take the deep breathings and you 
will have to resort to them a number of times 
a day. But always remember to use the mind 
with the deep breathings of you will not get 
the results. A change of climate is beneficial 
for the reason that it makes the corpuscles 
active and they attack the microbes with re- 
newed vigor. 

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Always breathe through the nose because 
the passages are tortuous, causing the foreign 
substances in the air, including microbes, to 
be deposited on the moist surfaces at the 
bends, thereby keeping them from the lungs. 
In breathing through the mouth all the dust 
and germs go directly through the lungs. 
Is it any wonder then that so many people 
are affected with lung troubles? 

Never, never worry ! Worrying always comes 
from a fear of something and that fear causes 
a drop in the temperature, be it ever so slight, 
which in turn, if you are not watchful and do 
not supply the lost heat, drives the corpuscles 
from their posts and lets the bacteria get a 
foot-hold in your body. 

Make it a rule to be happy every minute of 
your life, no matter how poor you are or how 
depressed you are, for unhappiness always ag- 
gravates diseases of the body. Never make it 
a habit to wait for something in the future 
before being happy. You can be happy under 
any conditions of life. That does not mean 
for you to be contented with any station in 
life. You must always strive but in doing so 
be happy. No matter how much money you 
may acquire you will never be any happier 
than when you had less because every higher 
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will bring more responsibilities and trials, 
which will counterbalance your extra oppor- 
tunities for happiness. It is really marvelous 
how happy one can be under the most trying 
circumstances if he tries to be so by centering 
his mind upon that desire. A man is not a 
fool because he is happy when he is down in 
the world. On the other hand, he is the 
wisest of men ; for, being happy and not con- 
tented with his lot, he is vigilant and wise, 
which qualities always insure success. Hap- 
piness is one of the best assistants in getting 
rid of disease. Remember you have the power 
and must use it to cure yourself. So that this 
apparent digression is not really a digression 
but much in point. 

If the world at large can be made to realize 
the truth of the experiences recorded in this 
book and to make use of the law herein laid 
down, then my mission will have been ful- 
filled. In finishing this book I desire to state 
positively, again, that religion or faith have 
nothing to do with cures made under this 
method except in so far as they cause one to 
think more intensely and enable one to fix 
the picture of the trouble more vividly before 
the mind. It requires no faith of a religious 
nature to operate one's body or to exercise 



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one's talents. It requires no faith for one to 
operate by the use of any positive law. 

It is no miracle to stop pain instantly by the 
use of the mind as shown above. It is a 
miracle when lost tissues of the flesh are re- 
stored instantly, as Our Lord worked His 
cures. 



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